My crowded stage
When I am writing books like Rome's Revolution, I try and keep the important characters to a minimum so we can follow their adventures. However, I've noticed that we pick up characters along the way and pretty soon, my stage gets very crowded.
Consider the scene where Rei first meets the Deucadons. In the blink of an eye, I have Rei, MINIMCOM (inside of Rei's head), Melloy, Steben and Tridin. And they prattle on about their leader Bukky. It's hard to give everybody equal time so I had Tridin stay behind after he got the rest of the group situated.
Steben makes a guest appearance in the novel Rome's Evolution as a researcher at Wally Stanislaw's dig site. Melloy also makes a guest appearance in the upcoming novel The Milk Run as part of the engineering team gearing up Project Desert Bloom. We don't make a big fuss over it. It's just supposed to amuse fans of the series.
In The Milk Run, the problem gets even worse as Aason moves along solving the mystery of his disappearance. We start with Aason, Junior and OMCOM's livetar and quickly acquire Aroline. From there, we pick up Aroline's father, Donald and the K'val named Sh'ev. Pretty soon, the creature made only of light known as Molokai is aboard. By the time Aason returns to Tabit, his mother, father and MINIMCOM are waiting there.
For those of you counting that's ten people (or things) that I have to fit into Junior's cargo bay. It was so crowded, I had to have Junior build the 35th century equivalent of a conference table just so they could all sit down and talk to each other.
That is one crowded stage!
Consider the scene where Rei first meets the Deucadons. In the blink of an eye, I have Rei, MINIMCOM (inside of Rei's head), Melloy, Steben and Tridin. And they prattle on about their leader Bukky. It's hard to give everybody equal time so I had Tridin stay behind after he got the rest of the group situated.
Steben makes a guest appearance in the novel Rome's Evolution as a researcher at Wally Stanislaw's dig site. Melloy also makes a guest appearance in the upcoming novel The Milk Run as part of the engineering team gearing up Project Desert Bloom. We don't make a big fuss over it. It's just supposed to amuse fans of the series.
In The Milk Run, the problem gets even worse as Aason moves along solving the mystery of his disappearance. We start with Aason, Junior and OMCOM's livetar and quickly acquire Aroline. From there, we pick up Aroline's father, Donald and the K'val named Sh'ev. Pretty soon, the creature made only of light known as Molokai is aboard. By the time Aason returns to Tabit, his mother, father and MINIMCOM are waiting there.
For those of you counting that's ten people (or things) that I have to fit into Junior's cargo bay. It was so crowded, I had to have Junior build the 35th century equivalent of a conference table just so they could all sit down and talk to each other.
That is one crowded stage!
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